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Monday, July 27, 2015

Hillary Clinton Has a Plan: For Renewable Power

When asked, whether by the campaign or by poll-takers, media outlets,
or even by friends, why they support Hillary Clinton for President,
many people, I have noticed, have a ready short answer while I have been
flummoxed. How to have a simple answer when the reasons are so many,
so complex, and so deeply rooted in a long history has escaped me.
Today the light came on, and surprisingly, it is the same simple answer
with which I argued for her nomination in 2008. She always has a plan.

If
Hillary argues in favor of a policy, she always has a plan behind the
argument. It is always sensible, well thought out, thorough, and
surprisingly clear and simple for everyone to understand.

Yesterday,
she unveiled her plan to combat climate change. Below is her email
with an informative video and a way for you to sign onto her effort
along with a fact sheet issued by her campaign.

From this day
forward I do have a short answer to that question - the same one I had
in 2008. I could even make it my hashtag: #HillaryHasaPlan. Of course
the long answer would incorporate a great deal more, but this is my short one: Hillary has a plan!

Friend --

Climate
change is one of the most urgent problems facing our nation and our
world. Tonight, I’m proud to announce the first steps of an ambitious
plan to combat it and help make America a clean energy superpower.

Too
many Republicans in this race deny the very existence of this global
threat by reminding you that they’re not scientists. Well, I
may not be a scientist, but I’m a grandmother with two eyes and a brain.
That’s all it takes to know that we must immediately address climate
change, one of the defining challenges of our time. I hope you’ll stand
with me to do just that.

Watch the video, then add your name to join me in the fight against climate change:

Hillary Clinton announced two bold national goals
that she will set as president to combat climate change, create jobs,
protect the health of American families and communities, and make the
United States the world's clean energy superpower:

The
United States will have more than half a billion solar panels installed
across the country by the end of Hillary Clinton's first term.

The
United States will generate enough clean renewable energy to power
every home in America within ten years of Hillary Clinton taking office.

The
next decade will be decisive for our transition to a clean energy
economy and our ability to meet the global climate crisis. The
two goals Clinton announced are part of a comprehensive energy and
climate agenda that she will lay out over the coming months.
By achieving these goals we will:

Expand the amount of installed solar capacity to 140 gigawatts by the end of 2020, a 700% increase from current levels. That is the equivalent of having rooftop solar systems on over 25 million homes.

Add more power generation capacity to the grid than during any decade in American history, from a combination of wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and other forms of renewable electricity.

Prevent
thousands of premature deaths and tens of thousands of asthma attacks
each year, meet our national and international climate targets, and move
our economy along a path towards deep decarbonization by 2050.

How will we achieve these goals? Through a clean energy challenge to unleash American innovation.

First, Hillary Clinton will make it a top priority to fight efforts to roll back the Clean Power Plan.
The Clean Power Plan is a crucial tool in our national strategy to
reduce carbon pollution, level the playing field for and increase the
deployment of renewable energy, and build a clean energy future. In the
face of attacks from climate change deniers, we will need a champion in
the White House to defend it and implement it effectively.
But smart federal standards set the floor, not the ceiling. We can and must go further.Hillary Clinton will launch a Clean Energy Challenge that forms a new partnership with states, cities, and rural communities that are ready to lead on clean energy. She will outline this Challenge in detail in the coming weeks, and it will include:

Solar X-Prize: Awards for
communities that successfully cut the red tape that slows rooftop solar
installation times and increases costs for businesses and consumers.

Transforming the Grid:
Work with states, cities and rural communities to strengthen grid
reliability and resilience, increase consumer choice and improve
customer value.

Rural Leadership: Expand the
Rural Utilities Service and other successful USDA programs to help
provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy, not just to rural
Americans but to the rest of the country as well.

As part of
the Clean Energy Challenge, Clinton will ensure that every part of the
federal government is working in concert to help Americans build a clean
energy future. This includes:

Transmission Investment: Ensure the federal government is a partner, not an obstacle, in getting low-cost wind and other renewable energy to market.

Solar Access: Overcome barriers that prevent low-income and other households from using solar energy to reduce their monthly energy bills.

Tax Incentives:
Fight to extend federal clean energy incentives and make them more cost
effective both for taxpayers and clean energy producers.

Public Lands and Infrastructure:
Expand renewable energy on public lands, federal buildings, and
federally-funded infrastructure, including an initiative to
significantly increase hydropower generation from existing dams across
the US.

Innovation: Increase public investment
in clean energy R&D, including in storage technology, designed
materials, advanced nuclear, and carbon capture and sequestration.
Expand successful innovation initiatives, like ARPA-e, and cut those
that fail to deliver results.

But this is only part of a comprehensive energy and climate agenda.

This is just the beginning of the energy and climate strategy that Hillary will present over the coming months,
including ways in which the Clean Energy Challenge will improve the
efficiency of our buildings and modernize our transportation system, as
well as major initiatives in the following areas:

Energy and Climate Security:
Reduce the amount of oil consumed in the United States and around the
world, guard against energy supply disruptions, and make our
communities, our infrastructure, and our financial markets more
resilient to climate-related risks.

Modernizing North American Infrastructure:
Improve the safety and security of existing energy infrastructure and
align new infrastructure we build with the clean energy economy we are
seeking to create.

Safe and Responsible Production:
Ensure that fossil fuel production taking place today is safe and
responsible, that taxpayers get a fair deal for development on public
lands, and that areas that are too sensitive for energy production are
taken off the table.

Coal Communities: Protect
the health and retirement security of coalfield workers and their
families and provide economic opportunities for those that kept the
lights on and factories running for more than a century.

Collaborative Stewardship:
Renew our shared commitment to the conservation of our disappearing
lands, waters, and wildlife, to the preservation of our history and
culture, and to expanding access to the outdoors for all Americans.

Hillary Clinton is a proven fighter against the threat of climate change.

As
Secretary of State, Clinton built an unprecedented global effort to
combat climate change, making it a key U.S. foreign policy priority.
She appointed the first Special Envoy for Climate Change to make the
issue a top priority in U.S. diplomacy. She led the creation of the
Climate and Clean Air Coalition global initiative and with President
Obama achieved the key diplomatic breakthrough that yielded the 2009 UN
Copenhagen Accord, the first international climate agreement in which
major developing countries like China, India, and Brazil committed to
reduce their GHG pollution.As Senator, Clinton advanced
initiatives to protect the American people from the threat of climate
change and unleash the full potential of America's clean energy economy.
She introduced the Strategic Energy Fund Act and co-sponsored and
supported legislation to extend the Wind, Solar and Ethanol Tax Credits.
She championed the Clean Power Act to reduce harmful industrial
pollutants and was part of a bipartisan coalition to protect the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling.

Hillary was in Des Moines today where, on the heels
of unveiling her plan. she toured the Des Moines Area Rapid Transit
Central Station.

Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton looks on as she is
introduced to speak about her renewable energy plan, Monday, July 27,
2015, at the Des Moines Area Rapid Transit Central Station in Des
Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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